State librarian to speak at annual UOP literacy event
Manteca Bulletin: 9.06.2015
Greg Lucas, who oversees the California State Library’s vast collection, from
historical documents to digitized books, will be the featured speaker Thursday
at University of the Pacific’s 2015 Beyond Our Gates Dialogue,
“Connections and Common Ground in Literacy.”
“People build libraries and libraries build
community,” Lucas wrote recently in Western City Magazine. “Anyone who believes
libraries are a withered vestige from sepia-tinted yesteryear hasn’t been
inside their neighborhood branch lately.”
On any given day at a public library, parents
may be singing with their toddlers at story time, nurturing the early literacy
skills young children need to become strong readers. Immigrants may be
practicing English while high-schoolers practice for the SAT. Job seekers may
be filling out employment applications and seniors may be opening their first
email accounts.
The Dialogue is scheduled for 9 a.m. on
Thursday, Sept. 10, at the San Joaquin County Office of Education’s Wentworth
Education Center, 2707 Transworld Drive in Stockton. The event is free and open
to the public.
“Libraries connect people to resources—and to
each other,” said Jennifer Torres Siders, community relations director for
University of the Pacific. “We’re working closely with our local libraries to
improve early literacy in San Joaquin County, and we want to help more
residents. READ MORE !
The theme of International Literacy Day 2015 is Literacy and Sustainable Societies. Literacy is a key
driver for sustainable development. Literacy skills are the prerequisite for
the learning of a broader set of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values,
required for creating sustainable societies. At the same time, progress in
areas of sustainable development, such as health and agriculture, serves as an
enabling factor in the promotion of literacy and literate environments.
